My kids give me grey hair when they play near the road.
give someone grey hair
idiomTo give someone great frustration, confusion, or anxiousness.
Origin
first recorded 21st c.The phrase is influenced by the popular belief that stress can cause the greying of hair (that link wasn't shown to be grounded scientifically until a January 2020 study on stress in mice for the Nature journal).
The constant delays in this project are really starting to give me grey hair.
Managing a team of disorganized interns during the busy season will surely give me grey hair before the year is out.
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as if someone owns the place
Alternative form of like someone owns the place.
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bad hair day
A day when things seem to be unmanageable or go wrong.
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barnet
[Cockney slang]hair
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beat someone round the ears
To beat (a person) with blows about the head.
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bless someone with
To give or bestow, as a gift from God.
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bring someone to their knees
To defeat and make submit to orders.
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call someone every name in the book
To call someone many abusive names.
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call someone everything but a child of God
To call someone many abusive names.